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1 03 1. Taxus baccata, L. (Yew). Native. English type. 

 Range 1-2. Frequent both on the slate and limestone crags ; 

 ascending from shore-level at Humphrey Head to the limestone 

 pavement of Hutton-Roof and Whitbarrow, and to 500 yards 

 on Grange Fell, over Castle Crag in Borrowdale. The finest 

 trees in the district were those commemorated by Wordsworth 

 in Lorton Vale and Borrowdale, one near a farm-house in 

 Yewdale, north of Coniston, and those in the churchyard 

 at Patterdale ; but last winter the finest tree in Patterdale 

 was blown down, and the group in Borrowdale completely 

 wrecked. Many hills and cliffs are named after it, — Yewdale 

 Crag near Coniston, Yew Crag below Seatollar and at Ulls- 

 water, and Yewbarrow at the head of Wastdale, near Grange- 

 over-Sands and above the Winster valley opposite Whitbarrow. 



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1032. Goodyera repens, R., Br. Native. Scottish type. 

 Range 1. 



C. In a fir plantation near the Eden at Armathwaite, be- 

 tween Penrith and Carlisle. — (Dr. F. A. Lees.) 



1033. Spiranthes autumnalis, Rich. (Lady's Tresses), 

 Native. Xerophilous. English type. Range 1. 



L. Pastures about Newton near Cartmel. — (Mr. Hall.) 

 Field by the road out of Kents Bank going towards Grange. 

 — (B.) On the limestone, common near Baycliff, south-west 

 ofUlverstone. — (Rev. R. Rolleston). Near Grange-over-Sands. 

 — (T. Gough.) 



1036. Neottia Nidus-avis, Rich. (Bird's Nest Orchis). 

 Native. British type. Range 1. Shaded woods. Rare. 



C. Walla Crag Wood, Keswick.— (Watson, W. Matthews.) 

 Woodhall, Westward, and Flimby Wood near Whitehaven. — 



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